Leamington Spa, 07 August 2013 – Highway’s technology and surveying company Yotta DCL has won a contract to provide surveys for Carillion on the UK’s M40 motorway, worth GBP 375,000. Yotta DCL were awarded the five year contract after being shortlisted based on experience and knowledge through an e-auction, which vetted survey providers bid against each other for the survey work. Carillion holds the Operation and Maintenance agreement with UK Highways, which is the M40 DBFO (design, build, finance and operate) company.
Yotta DCL will provide Carillion with Deflectograph, CHART, High Speed Road Monitor (HRM) and Skid Resistance surveys and resulting quality data. The company will survey 350-km of carriageway, including slip roads, running between Junction 1 and Junction 15 of the M40.
“To give us surety of service delivery, we took the decision to offer a five-year contract instead of the usual annual procurement. We are pleased that Yotta DCL won the e-auction as the company has provided surveys for us in previous years. Being a DBFO, it is an unusual contract to award because it runs much longer and so it is good to be working with a company that we trust. We have an excellent relationship with the company and it delivers its surveys and data on time. In addition, Yotta DCL’s after care is very good,” says Graham Farr, Asset Manager, Carillion.
The M40 DBFO is one of the most mature in the UK. It was established in 1997 and will run until 2027. UK Highways holds the concession for the M40 DBFO with Carillion being responsible for all operations and maintenance.
Deflectograph is a vehicle-based survey that measures the deflection of the road surface under a known load. The survey assess the structural condition and provides a wide range of data to help assess the residual life of the carriageway together with detailed information that guides strengthening or reconstruction schemes. CHART is a walked survey that is performed simultaneously with the deflectograph; it picks up fine detail that may otherwise be missed by the survey vehicle.
Yotta DCL uses one of its bespoke survey vehicles to perform the HRM machine survey. The survey collects a range of information such as longitudinal profile, texture, transverse profile, and cracking. Cracking data is processed from high-resolution images of the surface taken by a line-scanning camera. Skidding resistance surveys play an important part in helping Carillion tackle safety and inform policies going forwards to reduce road traffic incidents.
The five-year contract ensures surety of service for Carillion. Yotta DCL were awarded the contract after being shortlisted based on experience and knowledge through an e-auction, which vetted survey providers bid against one another for the survey work.
About Yotta DCL
Yotta DCL is a pioneering information technology and highways surveying company based in the UK. The Company develops innovative software, services and technologies to help local authorities and contractors manage municipal services and assets, improving quality, efficiency and productivity. Yotta DCL incorporates Mayrise Systems to provide a portfolio of software solutions widely used in the UK for managing municipal services such as street lighting, waste, street works and highways. The Mayrise products are complemented by Horizons, an innovative web based software platform that seamlessly combines GIS, pavement management and asset management. Yotta DCL also brings over 20 years of experience in the provision of highways surveying services for local and national government. These services include visual inspections, SCANNER road surface condition surveys and asset inventory surveys, which provide data that can beutilised within its Mayrise and Horizons software products. The company also offers a wide range of consultancy services, offering training and services in the implementation of its software products as well as extensive expertise in highways asset management consultancy, with a bespoke service tailored to provide exactly the help that highways authorities require. Yotta DCL is part of OMG plc; a successful global technology company listed on the London Stock Exchange. OMG is one of the world’s leading suppliers of image understanding systems including motion capture and computer vision; this innovative technology is applied by Yotta DCL to highways surveying.